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[Phys-L] Verification of theories



According to one of the most pernicious myths adopted in postscientism,
theories can only be verified through experiments. Being faithful to the
mythology, sycophants neither understand nor care about the logic used by
the initiated in the transition from axioms to final results. They even
don't care about the relevancy of experiments. Sycophants can only sing
dithyrambs containing stanzas of the sort:

The frequency shift he gave in defiance
was neatly confirmed under the tower.
Oh Einstein, oh Albert, oh giant of science,
oh creature divine with an infinite power.

The problem is that, in the postscientific era, the initiated are logical
jugglers able to derive anything from anything. For instance, the frequency
shift factor, 1+phi/c^2, is a corollary of the equivalence principle and
Newton's c+v principle (the speed of light does depend on the speed of
source or observer - see http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev3.htm }. The
Juggler did obtain the factor for himself in this way but to sycophants he
offered the absurd derivation in Appendix 3 in his "Relativity" (see
http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev6.htm ).

Experimental verification can only make sense if a prior LOGICAL
verification has comprehensively answered the question "What follows from
what?".

Pentcho Valev
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